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Updated Tuesday, April 9, 2024-00:02

  • Cibeles 'Operation Honeymoon': unprecedented relief of Almeida for 15 days at Madrid City Hall

  • City Hall 24 hours with the most powerful vice mayor in Spain: "Madrid welcomed us when my father died, when I was a girl, and I work to keep the city that way"

He woke up on municipal Monday with certain after-effects after the intense wedding of

José Luis Martínez-Almeida

, who must have already been enjoying the enigmatic charms of Bhutan with his wife. Collateral damage is present, for example, on the feet of the person who will wield the city's baton for the next two weeks. To Inmaculada Sanz (Zamora, 1977), vice mayor and, since yesterday, acting mayor, God came to see with the agenda. Almost at noon, during one of the events of her debut as leader of Cibeles, she had to hold the racket and exchange balls with

Feliciano López

, former tennis player and director of the Mutua Madrid Open (April 22-May 5), on the court the clay drawn on the Plaza Mayor. So she chose to put on her sneakers to give relief to her feet that were punished by the shoes from Saturday's wedding ceremony.

«It is not just me who will be in charge of the City Council for the next 15 days, but rather the entire Government Board, my fellow councilors and, ultimately, a very solid team of people who have been working together for years. The objective is that Madrid does not stop for a single moment," she said in her first hours as the highest representative of the Madrid City Council. He gave an account to the media with the clay dust embedded in his black shoes, and the chords of the Royal Guard, who at that precise moment crossed the place on horseback, as they presented themselves in the Royal Palace, before Felipe VI, credentials of several new ambassadors. Chance wanted both acts to converge in time.

Inma Sanz, during her little match against Feliciano López.EFE

Sanz has temporarily inherited the political powers of Almeida, which are added to the powers of Spokesperson and Security and Emergencies that he has had since 2019. «The substitution will occur without the need for an express declaratory act in this regard, and the Plenary of the Assembly must be informed. this circumstance," recalls article 12 of the Government's Organic Regulations. And that is what the vice mayor has done, who, according to the regulations, will never be able to revoke the delegations given to her by the mayor. None of the members of the Governing Board, which she herself will preside over twice, could be relieved of their position.

After Ana Botella and Manuela Carmena

However, those who do not have to let their guard down are the 21 district councilors, with whom yesterday, at around 4:30 p.m., they met to learn about the needs of each of the areas of the city. Because one of the powers that he does have during his mandate is to dispense with any of these 21 councilors if he considers it necessary. Sitting at a table several meters long, those present refined the shot with their presentations.

Inma Sanz is not the first to have to assume the municipal helm for extraordinary reasons. A honeymoon in this case. In 1986,

Juan Barranco

took office between January 19 and 28, after the death of

Enrique Tierno Galván

. Later he would be invested by the Plenary of the City Council. And in 2011, more than a decade ago, it was

Manuel Cobo

, right-hand man of

Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón

, who pulled the strings of the capital after his departure to the Ministry of Justice until

Ana Botella

took office.

Sanz, during the meeting with the district councilors.EM

«All the challenges that the mayor of Madrid has given us will not stop until he returns. I'm not going to call him a single day to let him rest and I hope that, when he returns, he finds the city at least as good as he left it," Sanz stressed, regarding that priority mission for these days. She will be the third woman to head the Madrid City Council in the history of Madrid. The aforementioned Botella did it, between December 2011 and June 2015. And she took over from this

Manuela Carmena

, during the following four years, when

Esperanza Aguirre

, with Almeida and Sanz among the first swords on her list, rubbed her hands .

In the Bernabéu box

Yesterday was an intense day on the public agenda of the interim mayor. It started early in the morning at the Mandarin Oriental Ritz Hotel, with the Nueva Economía Fórum informative breakfast, starring

Miguel Ángel García

Martín

, Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Local Administration of the Community of Madrid. He continued with an interview on the radio (Onda Madrid), before taking up the racket on the clay or meeting with the district councillors. The closing, after several meetings within the walls of the Cibeles Palace, was the presentation of the new digital medium 'Article 14'. Today he will visit the La Atalayuela Fire Department or the Villa de Vallecas market, and will conclude the day in the Bernabéu box, to watch the Real Madrid-Manchester City match. Because one of the subjects of the position involves being seen outside of Cibeles.

Two different weeks await Inma Sanz, who these days will be escorted by

Borja Carabante

, delegate of Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility and second Deputy Mayor, and

Marta Rivera de la Cruz

, responsible for the Government Area of ​​Culture, Tourism and Sport and third rung of the ladder. Inma is the fundamental piece for Cibeles' Honeymoon Operation, with José Luis Martínez-Almeida thousands of kilometers away. Two weeks of intensive course that, who knows, could be a great learning experience for the future.